![]() ![]() Thus an agreement under seal does not need consideration to be enforceable, unlike a contract. Should we care? The special legal rules about sealed documents (deeds) largely survive, often as free-standing artefacts of the law rather than as an expression of a legal principle. ![]() (If you can’t wait, see my June 2011 column on the Apostille Convention) Seals by public authorities will be the subject of a future column. It will restrict itself to seals on transactional documents. This article addresses that shortcoming, if it is one. In the common law provinces and the territories, however, it stops short of telling us how to create a sealed document. Most such legislation also tells us that a legal requirement that a document be signed is satisfied by an electronic signature. ![]() ![]() Canada’s electronic commerce legislation in Canada tells us how to create an electronic document that will satisfy a legal requirement that the information must be in writing. ![]()
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